Therapeutic

//ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A therapeutic agent
  2. 2
    a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, or relating to therapy.

    "“We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep."

  2. 2
    Having a positive effect on the body or mind.

    "Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tending to cure or restore to health wordnet
  2. 2
    relating to or involved in therapy wordnet

Synonyms

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alterativecurativeremedialadjuvantaidfulalterative

Example

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"Sweeping the floor is therapeutic for one's mind."

Etymology

From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).

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